Video of this Gypsy Vardo Wagon Renovation

Today it’s a unique and beautiful rolling guest house! And it’s for sale, too. If you’re interested in purchasing it you can contact the owners right here. Serious inquiries only please. It’s located in Fallbrook, California.

What would you do with a little structure like this?

I’d consider either mounting it on a utility trailer so it can be used for modern road traveling or if I had land I’d put it in my backyard to use as a micro guest house or as my writing studio/office. How about you?

Alex

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Can’t read the colored text on top of the multicolored backgrounds. You need to put the text on individual black frames like you did at the end. Also, there are too many different text sizes and there’s not adequate time to read the copy; some of us are not speed readers (these are common errors of the movie industry, too.)

Way out of my price range, though I can see where all the craftsmanship and detailed work would not come cheap. Aesthetically pleasing as it is, probably not practical for the way I live anyway. The roof construction is interesting. I was hoping to raise the roof and add a mollycroft on a travel trailer I was given but I’m still working out how to maintain structural integrity.

I’d advise against a mollycroft as they are prone to leaking. Even the San Francisco cable cars (which are built with heavy oak) tend to have calked up windows in their mollycrofts. Anyway, if you want, I’ll send you a pic of my vardo. I would be happy to provide any advice you wish on building your own. My experience is mainly in boats and set design. Cheers, ricardo

I loved the outside of it when I first saw it, wow isn’t that a beauty. I perhaps would have animals painted on the outside, then got inside and it was such an original, interesting vibrancy and I liked a lot of the colours, I might not have put so many clashing colours in myself but I’m into the pastel colours, but funnily enough when I got to the end of the post and you showed how it was before, I did think it was a shame to make the tiny house so different from how it originally was because you basically turned snow white into madonna but yes the overall finish is brilliant and has a pretty finish, it’d mainly be the inside I’d change if it were mine, put my own stamp on it 🙂

It would be nice without so much color, kinda back to original, and inside to a bare minimum, original as possible,. Then I would put it on a trailer, take it too fairs and festivals, I would also dress like a Gypsy, and charge fair goers $,to enter and see the life and times of the Gypsy’s.